Lorenz Hart is singing in the rain. Seconds later, he’s collapsed in an alley, no longer with a song in his heart, abandoned with the rest of the Broadway trash. He’ll perish from pneumonia hours later in a nearby hospital, at age 48. That’s how Richard Linklater opens his new film Blue Moon, spoilers be damned, and it neatly summarizes, in one pitiless tracking sequence, … [Read more...]
‘Denial’: An easy victory over evil thought
It was merely 16 years ago that the existence of the Holocaust was put on trial in England. Wait, what? It sounds preposterous, but it happened: David Irving, a British World War II historian turned Holocaust denier, filed a high-profile libel suit against Penguin Books and American scholar Deborah Lipstadt, who called Irving what he was in her 1993 book Denying the … [Read more...]